Hospital Affiliations

Our hospital groups provide over half of the population of summer campers each year. Each hospital group has a social worker or group coordinator that is in charge of collecting the camp applications and coordinating transportation to and from camp. Hospital groups range in size from five children to fifty children! Most hospital groups are diagnosis-specific; however some groups send children with various diagnoses. Our largest hospital groups come from New York City, Philadelphia and Long Island. Most of the children from these geographic areas would not be able to attend camp if it wasn’t for the organized transportation from their hospitals. The Admissions Office works very closely with the hospital group coordinator, nurses and doctors to gather paperwork and organize their week at camp. Typically, three or four different hospital groups attend each session of camp. During the fall, the Operations team visits our hospital partners to evaluate the summer and build awareness about camp in hopes of recruiting more children. Whether it is a new hospital group or a group that has been attending camp for many years, the counselors and staff always get so excited to hear a bus pull on site each week!

Our Hospital and Volunteer Health Organization Partners

Albany Medical Center
Brookdale Hospital
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Flying Horse Farm
Harlem Hospital
Hemophilia Association of NJ
King’s County Hospital
Mary Gooley Hemophilia Center
Montreal Children’s Hospital
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Nassau University Medical Center
National Hemophilia Foundation
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
South Central Sickle Cell Society
St. Barnabas
St. Christopher’s
St. Vincent’s Medical Center
Stonybrook Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Upstate Medical Center
UMDNJ University Hospital
University of Rochester
Valerie Fund

“Fifteen years ago we brought five children to camp and we were pretty anxious, not knowing what to expect. Today, through word of mouth this number has grown to fifteen or twenty children with bleeding disorders attending summer camp at the Double H. At camp our kids learn more about their own medical condition from campers turned counselors, who become important role models. Our kids leave camp having learned from a fellow camper or counselor how to handle the challenges of living with chronic illness such as techniques to explain the condition to peers or how to make self IV infusion easier. Sharing stories with these role models changes the way they view their illness and opens their minds to what hey are able to achieve.”

Hospital Partner and Volunteer Nurse, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, New Hampshire